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"John left" or "John was tall" are as close as narrative can come to stage imitation, an actor walking into the wings or the choice of a tall rather than short actor. So it seems reasonable to call the narrative statements of such actions and presentations "unnarrated." But "John left, unfortunately" or "John was tall, unfortunately" necessarily presuppose a speaker who has taken it upon himself to judge what is and what is not unfortunate. They are clearly interpretive statements, and interpretation implies a narrator.In the strict sense, of course, all statements are "mediated” since they are composed by someone. Even dialogue has to be invented by an author. But it is quite clear (well established in theory and criticism) that we must distinguish between the narrator, or speaker, the one currently "telling" the story, and the author, the ultimate designer of the fable, who also decides, for example, whether to have a …

"every deconstruction turns, in spite of itself, into its own construct in need of further deconstruction. Or, to put the pattern in political rather than philosophical terms, every subversive struggle against the repressive power structure becomes a struggle for its own power and thus its own right to repress."

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